Prendergast (Gort)
The Prendergast family were granted lands which had belonged to the O'Shaughnessys including the area which was to become the Lough Cutra estate. Sir Thomas Prendergast 2nd Baronet died in 1760 and was succeeded by his nephew John Prendergast Smyth, the son of his sister Elizabeth and Charles Smyth, Member of Parliament for Limerick city 1731-1776. John Prendergast Smyth was created Baron Kiltarton in 1810 and Viscount Gort in 1816. He was succeeded by his nephew Charles Vereker as 2nd Viscount. The 2nd Viscount built Lough Cutra Castle and his son the 3rd Viscount sold the Gort estate in 1851.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Lough Cutra (Lough Cooter) | Loughcooter Demesne | Beagh | Gort | Ardamullivan 97 | Kiltartan | Galway |
OSI Ref: R460973
OS Sheet: 129 Discovery map: 52 |
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| Milford | Sreelane | Kilmurry | Limerick | Ballysimon 45 | Clanwilliam | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R616 580
OS Sheet: 5 Discovery map: 65 |
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| Rindifin Cottage | Rindifin | Beagh | Gort | Gort 99 | Kiltartan | Galway |
OSI Ref: M457008
OS Sheet: 129 Discovery map: 52 |
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Archival sources
- Papers relating to Prendergast lands in counties Galway & Tipperary, 1702-1852. D. 17556-661, T.7145-8. ; National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Prendergast, 16 May 1854, Vol 28, MRGS 39/012, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Genealogical notes on the Smyth family of Limerick city, 1709-1820. M.466 & M.5803; National Archives of Ireland
- Baker, Ringwood & Gordon, solicitors' collection, includes plain copy will of John Prendergast Smyth, Viscount Gort, 16 Oct 1803. Small Accs. Index 105, T.11,952; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 286 (Mill-ford)
- PRIOR, Thomas. ''A list of the Absentees of Ireland, and the yearly value of their estates and incomes spent abroad''. 1730: 7
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 142 (Rhyndifin)
Modern printed sources
- ''Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'': BLAKE, Martin J. & DALTON, J.P. Gort and Lough Cutra, a review. VI (1909-1910), 52-63.
- McNAMARA, M. & MADDEN, M (eds). ''Beagh: a history and heritage''. Beagh, county Galway: Beagh Rural Development Assoc., c.1995. : 79-80.
- ''Irish Ancestor'': Tenants of J. P. Smyth [John Prendergast Smyth] at Gort, Co. Galway in 1805. XIV (1982), 20-21
- MALCOMSON, A.P.W. ''The Pursuit of the Heiress: Aristocratic Marriage in Ireland, 1740-1840''. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006: 207-209
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: 598-599
- MELVIN, Patrick. ''Estates and landed society in Galway''. (Dublin: Éamonn de Búrca, 2012). : 60-61